Motivational Quotes

Peace

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Peace

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Amis, Martin

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It has occasioned more wars than any of the most ruthless conquerors. It has disturbed and nearly destroyed that political equilibrium so necessary to the liberties and the welfare of the world.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Proverb, Indian

Tao. Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.

W. Somerset Maugham

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Zedong, Mao

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Lennon, John

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

L'Estrange, Sir Roger

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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Dyke, Henry Van

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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Kohe, J. Martin

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Aurelius, Marcus

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When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Gide, Andre

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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

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When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Schucman, Helen

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Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.

Kennedy, John F.

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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

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The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

William Shakespeare

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

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You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

Kettering, Charles F.

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends.You talk to your enemies.

Dayan, Moshe

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The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Thant, U.

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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall